Michael Treloar: The Paul Lucas Collection of Australian Military History - Part III, 103021, Adelaide SA

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
October 30, 2021 - October 30, 2021
Page Size: 199 items in 8 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
61

[Camberwell Convalescent Home, Victoria] A collection of photographs of 'Highton', 65 Mont Albert Road, Balwyn, while it was being used as a convalescent home for soldiers during the First World War.

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 180.00
62

[The Cenotaph, London] An embroidered picture depicting the London Cenotaph, displaying the Union Jack and the Red and Blue Ensigns, with the foreground a mass of floral wreaths.

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
66 DINNING, Hector

By-Ways on Service. Notes from an Australian Journal.

London 1918 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 84.00
67 DONNELL, Anne

Letters of an Australian Army Sister.

Sydney 1920 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 132.00
69

[France] An appealing original watercolour of a 'small village church' in France, with a message on the verso from Lieutenant L.R.O. Stahle, 34th Battalion.

AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 132.00
70 [Gallipoli] [BLADEN, Reverend Albert Percy]

A superb collection of 60 vintage photographs showing life in the trenches at Gallipoli, possibly taken by Albert Percy Bladen, Methodist chaplain with the 23rd Battalion.

AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 AUD 1,800.00
71

[Gallipoli] The Dardanelles. An Epic told in Pictures [cover title].

London [1916] AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 144.00
72 [Gallipoli] PULLEY, 2008 Private William Henry

An improvised postcard from 2008 Private William Henry Pulley, B Company, 11th Battalion, from the Gallipoli Peninsula, 20 July 1915 (postmarked 26 July).

AUD 400.00 - 600.00 AUD 360.00
73

[General Service Group, Victoria] The 8th Reinforcements GSG V [General Service Group, Victoria]. Dinner prior to their Embarkation for the Front on Friday, July 19th 1918 ... Cafe Francatelli [Melbourne] ... [cover title].

AUD 40.00 - 60.00 AUD 36.00
74 GERARDY, Trooper [Edwin Field GERARD]

Australian Light Horse Ballads & Rhymes.

AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 72.00
75

[Group Portrait] A group portrait of 15 Australian soldiers eating al fresco in an Australian coastal setting.

AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 48.00
76

[Group Portrait] A group portrait featuring approximately one hundred soldiers in what appears to be the quadrangle of a public building, presumably in England.

AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
77

[Group Portrait] An original panoramic group portrait of approximately 130 Australian soldiers against a background of tents.

[Melbourne] [circa 1930s]. AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 96.00
78

[Group Portrait] An original panoramic group portrait of approximately one hundred Australian soldiers, including band members with their instruments.

[Melbourne] [circa 1930s]. AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
79

[Group Portrait] An original panoramic group portrait of several hundred Australian soldiers, including about twenty with brass band instruments.

[Melbourne] [circa 1930s]. AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 96.00
80

[Group Portrait] An original photograph of a group of Australian soldiers in uniform.

AUD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
81 GULLETT, Henry Somer and Charles BARRETT (editors)

Australia in Palestine.

Sydney 1919 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 84.00
82

[HMAT 'Borda' A30] P. and O. Branch Service. Dinner. October 10th, 1917. Australia via The Cape. SS HMAT 'Borda' [A 30]. Menu.... [drop-title].

AUD 40.00 - 60.00 AUD 36.00
83

[HMAT 'Themistocles'] HMAT 'Themistocles'. A Grand Farewell Concert will be given by the 'Themistocles' Concert Party. To be held on the After Well Deck on Thursday, February 24th, at 8 p.m. ... In Aid of Seamen's Charities.

AUD 80.00 - 120.00 AUD 72.00
85

[HMT 'Kaisar-i-Hind'] HMT 'Kaisar-i-Hind', 13th May, 1919. Dinner.

AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 48.00
86 HORNER, David

The Gunners. A History of Australian Artillery.

St Leonards 1995 AUD 40.00 - 60.00 AUD 60.00
88

[In Memoriam] Three vintage ephemeral Australian items from the First World War.

AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 48.00
89

[Liverpool Camp, NSW] Souvenir of Australia's Fighting Sons, Liverpool Camp. Eight Views. European War, 1915. Copyright C. Will Mack [cover title].

1915 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 48.00
91 [Mena Camp, Egypt] GALAGHER, Second Lieutenant Frederick Alfred

A group of 22 photographs taken at Cairo and Mena Camp by Second Lieutenant Frederick Alfred Galagher, 6th Battalion.

1914 and 1915 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
92

[Menu] 'In honour of HRH The Duke of Gloucester ... Dinner by the President and Members of The Returned Sailors & Soldiers Imperial League of Australia. Town Hall, Melbourne. Armistice Eve, November 10th, 1934'.

Melbourne 1934 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
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